The Berlin Tapes [Extra tracks, Import]

Iva Davies, Icehouse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: For Life Japan
• ASIN: B000005RGR
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #791,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Loving the Alien

2. Sister Europe

3. Heaven

4. Complicated Game

5. Berlin

6. All the Way

7. All Tomorrow's Parties

8. Let There Be Love

9. Disappointed

10. Really Good Time

11. At Night

12. Love Like Blood

13. Heroes

14. Be My Friend [*]

15. Being Boiled [*]

16. Blank Frank [*]

17. How Do You Sleep? [*]

Editorial Reviews

2002 remastered reissue of the Aussie alternative act's 1999 album that's unavailable domestically. Includes 5 bonus tracks 'Be My Friend', 'Being Boiled', 'How Do You Sleep', 'Giant And Child Fugue' & 'Pas De Trois.' Warner Australia.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, moody, soulful, and melodic, December 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Berlin Tapes (Audio CD)

Iva Davies goes back to cover some of obscure songs of the artists that he emulated in the early days of Icehouse. In this effort he bends these songs to his own unique style instead of being bent by them, and does a tasty job of rearranging them. This is not a rock and roll album per se. The tunes are generally mellow, subdued, and create a sexy blue mood. Notable components of these compositions is the use of a cello in place of a bass guitar, and melodic piano lines. Iva provides incredible vocals, rich and clear.

Included are tunes by David Bowie, the Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Frank Sinatra, Killing Joke, the Psychodelic Furs and The Velvet Underground. The renditions of Bowie's "Loving the Alien" and David Byrne's "Heaven" brought tears to my eyes. I put this album in my car CD player and listened to it over and over for 2 weeks when I first got it. There's a lot there and I recommend it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A night at the Berlin Ballet, October 19, 2000

By 

Tommy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Berlin Tapes (Audio CD)

I was introduced to this disc by a friend over a year ago. Since then it has become more treasured than my MOFi disc of Pink Floyd's "Meddle". It is the most emotional, delicate music I've ever had the pleasure to listen to. I am a regular theater goer and I enjoy the sound of a full scale symphony orchestra going from loud to soft in a half second. It raises the hair on the back of your neck. The spacious-ness at the symphony is so much part of the music. The atmosphere is real not projected. Never has a CD given me this feeling before, until the Berlin Tapes. I do have the advantage of a audiophile approved Hi-Fi rig but so do all my other 1000 CDs. This disc puts you 10th row center at the Berlin ballet. Iva is standing front and center with dancers behind him. The orchestra creating a liquid pool of sound. The atmosphere is all here folks. Listen to it and just appreciate the sound.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This CD is a dream, May 15, 2003

By 

Kristin Pearce (TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Berlin Tapes (Audio CD)

I recently bought this CD, and it's the only one I've been listening to since I first put it in my computer. It has an awesome ensemble of tracks, and my favorites are Heaven, Love Like Blood, At Night, and All Tomorrow's Parties. This collection is different than what Iva Davies has done in the past, since this is a compilation of remakes, but his arrangement of these songs makes it worth listening to. If you're a true Icehouse fan, this is one CD you can't be without!